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It is called the Glory Game after all. Football history is all about the glory, the moments of art and imagination which inspire legend.

Liverpool know all about that of course. The names are illustrious, the deeds stirring. Yet even a cursory glimpse into their history shows it is the hard yards which provide the route to titles.

Shankly’s teams were famous for those horrible scraps, the dour victories. Paisley’s teams too, were fighters before anything else, the 1979 team - perhaps the greatest of all - conceding just 16 goals in 42 games.

It’s a prosaic truth that has become a truism. Winning the games you don’t deserve to...the ugly wins deliver the league. So it is no wonder that wisdom was wheeled out so liberally after this defeat of West Ham.

Jurgen Klopp spoke of winning when not playing well: “You can’t win 12 in a row by winning only the games where you are flying,” was his frank assessment. Trent Alexander-Arnold spoke of “grinding it out”.

Interestingly, he suggested: “These are the ones that matter.” He means in the title race of course - that is what it takes to win the league. The one-nils. The ugly victories. The clean sheets.

Liverpool have 15 of them in the Premier League already this season, pulling level with Manchester City in that statistic on Saturday evening. They have averaged 2.6 goals per game, but the zeros against are the prize.

“Clean sheets are so important - that is